Cinema: Variations Apr. 1, 1929

¶ Criticized for bad synchronization in recent films, producers denied
their technical incompetence by confessing that "doubles" had sung and
talked for certain performers: for Richard Barthelmess (Weary River),
one Frank Withers; for Louise Brooks (The Canary Murder Case), one
Margaret Livingston.
¶ In Beverly Hills Mabel Normand, sick with
tuberculosis, was not told, for fear that she would worry, that her
husband, Lew Cody, was also ill. In a San Bernardino health resort
Cody, in bed with a nervous breakdown following influenza, was kept
ignorant, for a similar reason, that there was anything the matter with
his wife.